PART I.—WESTERN FRONT—SOMME AND VERDUN

CHAPTER

• French and British Advances 9
• Further Successes—French Capture Maurepas 13
• German Counterattacks 16
• Operations at Verdun—British Victories in the Somme 19
• The "Tanks"—British Capture Martinpuich 21
• Capture of Combles—Air Raids 25
• British Capture Eaucourt L'Abbaye-Regina Trench 28
• Continued Allied Advance 31
• French Retake Douaumont 34
• Germans Lose Fort Vaux—French Take Saillisel 37
• British Successes in the Ancre 41
• Operations on the French Front—Further Fighting in the Ancre 47
• Weather Conditions—Movements Around Loos 51
• French Win at Verdun 53
• Canadians at Arras—Nivelle in Command 55
• German Attacks at Verdun—Result of Six Months' Fighting 58
• German Attack on Hill 304—British Surprise Attack 61

PART II.—EASTERN FRONT

• The New Drive Against Lemberg 70
• The Battle on the Stokhod River 76
• Renewed Drive Against Lemberg 81
• The Fighting from Riga to Lutsk 86
• Fighting in the Carpathians 90
• Winter at the Eastern Front 93

PART III.—THE BALKANS

• Rumania's Military Strength 95
• Hostilities Begin 96
• Bulgaria Attacks 98
• The Germans Arrive 103
• The Rumanian Raid Across the Danube 106
• Mackensen Pressed Back 111
• The Rumanians Pressed Back 113
• The Battle of the River Argechu 117
• Bucharest Falls 119
• Sarrail's Offensive 124
• Unrest in Greece 126
• A Greek Army Surrenders to Germany 129
• The Serbians Advance 132
• The Greeks on the Firing Line 134
• Seizure of the Greek Fleet 136
• The Bulgarians Driven Back 138
• Monastir Falls 140
• Greek Fights Greek 143
• Fighting in the Streets of Athens 145
• The Serbians Checked 148

PART IV.—AUSTRO-ITALIAN FRONT

• The Fall of Goritz 149
• Fall and Winter on the Austro-Italian Front 153
• Fighting on Mountain Peaks 159

PART V.—WAR IN THE AIR AND ON THE SEA

• Aeroplane Warfare 168
• Zeppelin Raids 176
• Submarine Warfare 182

PART VI.—THE UNITED STATES AND THE BELLIGERENTS

• The Old Menace 189
• The U-53's Exploits 194
• Gathering Clouds 200
• Rupture With Germany 205
• Nothing Settled 212

PART VII.—WESTERN FRONT

• The German Retreat on the Ancre 217
• The German Retreat Continues—French Recover 120 Towns 227
• The British Troops Capture Vimy Ridge and Monchy—French Victories on the Aisne 239
• French Victories in Champagne—The British Capture Bullecourt 252
• The Battle of Messines Ridge—British Smash the German Salient South of Ypres 263
• The Germans Defeat British on Belgian Coast—Intense Fighting in the Champagne and at Verdun 276

PART VIII.—THE UNITED STATES AND GERMANY

• The Interim 291
• Berlin's Tactics 297
• Armed Neutrality 304
• Germany's Bid to Mexico 312
• A State of War 317
• Building the War Machine 328
• Men and Money in Millions 344
• Envoys from America's Allies 351
• In It at Last 356

PART IX.—THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

• Foreshadowing Revolution 363
• The Rise of Nihilism 365
• Revolutionary Doctrines 367
• Russian War Spirit Aroused 372
• Rasputin, the Evil Spirit of Russia 374
• Treachery of the Autocracy 378
• Party Intrigues 380
• The Work of Traitors 383
• Threatening of the Storm 386
• Revolution 389
• The Culmination 392
• The New Government 395
• The Czar Abdicates 400
• First Acts of the New RÉgime 404
• Socialism Supreme 406
• Policies Proclaimed 409
• Kerensky Saves Russia from Herself 412
• The American Commissions 416

PART X.—EASTERN FRONT

• The End of Winter at the Eastern Front 421
• Effects of the Russian Revolution 424
• The Beginning of Russian Rehabilitation 428
• The Russian July Offensive 433
• The Capture of Halicz and Kalusz 436
• The Collapse of the Russian Offensive 440
• The Russian Rout in Galicia and the Bukowina 445

PART XI.—AUSTRO-ITALIAN FRONT

• Stalemate on the Italian Fronts 452
• Spring on the Austro-Italian Front 457
• The Italian Drive Against Trieste 462
• The Height of the Italian Offensive 468

PART XII.—WAR ON THE SEA

• Submarine Warfare 475
• Naval Operations 480

PART XIII.—WAR IN THE AIR

• Aerial Warfare 485
• Air Raids 492

• Index 495